Gludy
Active member
After a frustrating time wasting day yesterday, I today sent this email to Tony Chappell at Tarquin.
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Dear Mr. Chappell,
Just for the record my proposal was for a total refund of the total cost of the boat without any return of Drumbeat to me.
Drumbeat has suffered considerable depreciation in price in the last 18 months you have had her and may well also need some serious attention having not been properly used for 18 months. During that time the diesel deregulation issue has been lost and, as you yourself state, boats such as Drumbeat significantly depreciate every year. Also you claimed that Drumbeat had 'pre-osmosis; and that, if you recall, was to cost you £15k. This was the basis upon which I released Ocean Deep to go to the London Boat Show. This matter would also need explaining.
I am aware that you are very experienced at litigation and note that you have instructed 'Michael Dyer, a local lawyer' who also happens to be a specialist marine lawyer on a wrong assumption concerning my offer.
This matter could be settled in principle very quickly and the details should take no more than a few days.
I am willing to sit down now with the Bank and yourselves to settle the basis of a settlement in confidential non-prejudicial talks. These talks would allow either side to make any proposals they wish. It would appear you are not!
Having paid circa £940k for a boat I have not been able to use for 16 months. A boat that has always been materially defective and still is, you have never once apologised for the fact that I have suffered so much because of the defective nature of the boat and your deplorable service. Not once. Or is it normal that as we head for 2 years since the boat arrived customers cannot use them? Do you really think that as in excess of over 500 letters and emails are launched on a new web site detailing every twist of the sage based on the truthful recorded facts that anyone reading the sad events would wish to business with you? The public will be able to see hundreds of images, videos etc as the events of the last 16 months unfold. It would be a permanent testimony to the experience that your company has subjected me to. Do you think that the associated media coverage will help launch your new range of boats? Are you happy to explain to customers on your open day the reasons why I have not been able to use my boat for 16 months? Or would you prefer to hide the truth?
I personally would much rather sit down and confidentially discuss the basis of a settlement hopefully proceeding to a rapid ending of the affair that I could then leave behind.
Yours faithfully
Paul Burgess
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I am not willing to indulge in time wasting exercises with Mr. Chappell.
I have instructed Tarquin that any work being done to my boat from today on needs to be done under the supervision of my surveyor. I have requested a schedule of work to include the faults detailed in the recent survey report so that I can arrange matters with the surveyor. That schedule request has never been met in the recent, almost 3 months at Emsworth. I have also instructed that the boat should not be put back into the water until my surveyor has inspected the hull.
My lawyer will probably be taking charge from here on in.
[ QUOTE ]
Dear Mr. Chappell,
Just for the record my proposal was for a total refund of the total cost of the boat without any return of Drumbeat to me.
Drumbeat has suffered considerable depreciation in price in the last 18 months you have had her and may well also need some serious attention having not been properly used for 18 months. During that time the diesel deregulation issue has been lost and, as you yourself state, boats such as Drumbeat significantly depreciate every year. Also you claimed that Drumbeat had 'pre-osmosis; and that, if you recall, was to cost you £15k. This was the basis upon which I released Ocean Deep to go to the London Boat Show. This matter would also need explaining.
I am aware that you are very experienced at litigation and note that you have instructed 'Michael Dyer, a local lawyer' who also happens to be a specialist marine lawyer on a wrong assumption concerning my offer.
This matter could be settled in principle very quickly and the details should take no more than a few days.
I am willing to sit down now with the Bank and yourselves to settle the basis of a settlement in confidential non-prejudicial talks. These talks would allow either side to make any proposals they wish. It would appear you are not!
Having paid circa £940k for a boat I have not been able to use for 16 months. A boat that has always been materially defective and still is, you have never once apologised for the fact that I have suffered so much because of the defective nature of the boat and your deplorable service. Not once. Or is it normal that as we head for 2 years since the boat arrived customers cannot use them? Do you really think that as in excess of over 500 letters and emails are launched on a new web site detailing every twist of the sage based on the truthful recorded facts that anyone reading the sad events would wish to business with you? The public will be able to see hundreds of images, videos etc as the events of the last 16 months unfold. It would be a permanent testimony to the experience that your company has subjected me to. Do you think that the associated media coverage will help launch your new range of boats? Are you happy to explain to customers on your open day the reasons why I have not been able to use my boat for 16 months? Or would you prefer to hide the truth?
I personally would much rather sit down and confidentially discuss the basis of a settlement hopefully proceeding to a rapid ending of the affair that I could then leave behind.
Yours faithfully
Paul Burgess
[/ QUOTE ]
I am not willing to indulge in time wasting exercises with Mr. Chappell.
I have instructed Tarquin that any work being done to my boat from today on needs to be done under the supervision of my surveyor. I have requested a schedule of work to include the faults detailed in the recent survey report so that I can arrange matters with the surveyor. That schedule request has never been met in the recent, almost 3 months at Emsworth. I have also instructed that the boat should not be put back into the water until my surveyor has inspected the hull.
My lawyer will probably be taking charge from here on in.
